The
Trump-owned TIGL Ireland Enterprise Limited wants to build a
2.8km berm on a sand dune at Carrowmore Bay to protect its investment
against coastal erosion and storm damage.

The
move has been opposed by conservationists in Ireland –
with Carrowmore dunes being designated a Special Area of
Conservation and a Natura 2000 site.

Last
month, the
plans for the wall hit a snag after TIGL’s
application to have it declared a strategic infrastructure
development has been denied by An Bord Pleanála.

Now,
the company has filed
a planning application with
Clare County Council – complete with a 242 page Environmental
Impact Statement prepared by an Irish consultancy firm - for the
wall to be built.

The
application, first reported today by Politico, cites
local regulations pertaining to “rising sea levels and
increased storm frequency and wave energy associated with global
warming” as cause for the wall to be built.

The
company’s concern for global warming is at odds with Trump’s own
views on the subject, which he has called a “con job” and a
“hoax” in the past.

Trump,
who has roiled the immigration debate by proposing to build a massive
wall along the Mexican border, has repeatedly taken to Twitter to
express skepticism that human activity is causing the world to warm,
raising sea levels as the polar ice caps melt.

He
has also said he would seek to “renegotiate” the global accord to
cut climate-warming carbon emissions agreed to by President Barack
Obama in December.

“The
concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order
to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” Trump tweeted in 2012.

Environmental
groups pounced on the application as evidence of hypocrisy.

“Donald
Trump clearly cares more about the fate of his golf courses than the
health of the millions of families already affected by the climate
crisis,” said Adam Beitman, a spokesman for the Sierra Club.

Of course,what this article in a liberal publication is saying is that Donald Trump is outside the mainstream.

It does show that, like Alex Jones he does have a screw or two loose.

12
Fringe Conspiracy Theories Embraced By A Man Who Might Be The Next
President

Obama
is really a Muslim

Donald
Trump has also repeatedly suggested that Obama, who is a Christian,
is actually
a secret Muslim.
Trump connected this to the birth certificate controversy, saying he
was hiding his real birth certificate because it said he was a
Muslim.

Another
one of his proof points was a statement Madonna made at a concert.

She
was being sarcastic. There is no actual evidence to support the
claim.

Scalia
was murdered

Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in February. He suffered from
several chronic conditions and the judge who pronounced him dead said
he died of “natural
causes.”

Trump
immediately speculated that he was murdered. “I’m hearing it’s
a big topic, that’s the question. And it’s a horrible topic, but
they say they found a pillow on his face, which is a
pretty unusual place to find a pillow,”
Trump told right-wing radio host Michael Savage.

Ted
Cruz’s dad involved in JFK assassination

“His
father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being — you
know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. What is this,
right prior to his being shot, and nobody
even brings it up,”
Trump told Fox News.

Trump
was referencing a story published by the National Enquirer. It was
based on a photo of Oswald standing with a man.

ISIS
provides phones to refugees seeking to enter the United States

There
was actually one
unconfirmed report that
videos of ISIS flags were found on the phones of refugees seeking to
enter Norway. This report was heavily promoted on U.S. conspiracy
sites.

*****

Trump
himself is willing to say almost anything. But he’s willing to
validate and legitimize people who are willing to go even further.
For example, he appeared
on Alex Jones’ radio show in November.
Jones runs the site InfoWars and says that tragedies like 9/11 and
Sandy Hook were actually “false flags” perpetrated by the U.S.
government.